Moving longer articles from old site. Here ( as a PDF file) is a piece I wrote a couple of years ago to serve as a general introduction to NLP.
It’s a few days old, but Tom Bentley wrote in The Guardian You can’t impose democracy from above
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The Guardian reports that the Internet Service Providers Association has written to David Blunkett: “[…] refusing to sign up to plans to give law enforcement agencies access to the records of British web and email users […] the Guardian has learned that internet service providers have told the Home Office that they will not voluntarily stockpile the personal records of their customers for long periods […] The apparent collapse of the negotiations may leave Mr Blunkett facing a choice between using his reserved powers under the legislation to force internet providers to comply or dropping the measure in response to political and political opposition […]”
First a play: Vincent in Brixton at Wyndham’s Theatre…. excellent – especially Jochum ten Haaf and Clare Higgins in the lead roles… And then some music: Eric Blakely at the 12 Bar Club. First time I’ve seen a band at this (very) small venue – but Blakely with his Austin-based guitar/blues/country was an excellent intro to the space.
Paolo Valdemarin flags two links on network organisations. The first is one I blogged back in April. The second – orgnet.com – is partly an advert for some software and services from Valdis Krebs, but has lots of links to case studies. If you follow the one about Paul Erdõs you will also find a link to a PDF of Ron Burt’s book chapter on The Network Nature of Social Capital
One of the things that’s been keeping me away from blogging over the last few months is taking some trainings in, and reading about, Neuro Semantics. More detail on Neuro-Semantics another time, but for now I’ll describe it as an extension to the NLP model of human perception.
Paolo Valdemarin writes: “In the last few months I have met (most of times virtually) some very smart people from all parts of the world I would like to work with: to start new projects, to create new technologies, to develop new solutions. But when I think about how this could work out, I keep bumping in the same old “company” idea. We could work together, with the ultimate goal of creating a new company.
Too thirsty for knowledge – Can you imagine spending every day at work with a hangover? That is the nearest adults will come to the feelings of dehydration experienced by children who have little access to water during the school day. So says a campaigner who argues that learning is being damaged by a simple lack of water in classrooms…. via mad musings of me (uk)